Luke 20: 45 – 47
Always Wanting To Be A ‘Big Shot’
45 Then, in the hearing of all the people, He said to His disciples, 46 “Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best
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Start Here – Our Calling
Matthew 9:35-38
* Lawrence Brotherton tells this story; “The Pastor asked an energetic young man to help him fill some vacancies in the Sunday School teaching roster. After looking over the church roll and determining who was available, he asked one man if he
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SOME CHRISTIANS HAVE DIM LIGHTS
Matt: 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so
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LET US
Learn the in and out ; of how God wants us to act as Christians
There are things he wants you and I to do his way .
1 .Fear
Heb. 4:1Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should
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Matthew 9: 14 – 17
To Fast Or Not To Fast, That Is The Question
14 Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the
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Our text teaches us three ways we are to show others the image of Jesus.

Opening video illustration: From the movie Amistad. In the scene two slave prisoners are in the jail cell and looking through the Bible and seeing the image of Jesus. The one slave is pointing out Jesus to the other one.
Series: Imitators
Summary of first two messages:
Sermon1: Reflect His
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Text: “After these things Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias… (John 21:1).
According to the Gospel of John, this is the third time Jesus appeared before the disciples. The first time was the evening of the Resurrection. “Then the same day at evening, when the
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Every Christian has a gift - and the Church needs all these gifts if it is going to function

Sermon: The Church is not a “one man show”
As I was thinking about the sermon for today, I was struck by the thought that the Church is not a “one man show”
God calls us to be a community – and the Church has no passengers.
As our Bishops often remind us
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Introduction: New minister & Wife-Mother story Let’s look @ someone who did get/accept the call
READ/PRAY
Proposition Statement: When God calls you to a task…
I. Don’t let the size of the task paralyze you (vs. 1-4)
A. The Death of Moses
1. Hard Act to follow (All that Moses did)
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Who’s Running This Show?
Zech. 6
Sometimes it’s not easy to know who’s running the show.
Pete’s telling a friend how he’d lost his job. “Why did the foreman fire you?” the friend asks. “Oh,” Pete says, “you know how foremen are. They stand around with their hands in their pockets watching
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INTRODUCTION
• SLIDE #1
• Have you ever been around folks who will do good things, but they want to make sure others know they did it? LOOK AT ME!
• For some it is all about looking good.
• In a small college town a tavern frequented by students ran the following ad in the campus paper during
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